sata disk recognised - but can't mount

[Cameron Simpson]

On 23:42 16 Nov 2004, Simon Schori <duke3000 at bluewin.ch> wrote:
| I have a Western Digital hard disk on a Promise SATA150 tx2plus SATA 
| controller.
| HD is listed as: ATA WDC WD2500JD-00G (Direct-Access) (as SCSI devices)
| Controller is listed as: 00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise 
| Technology, Inc. PDC20375
| I can see the hd in the hardware browser, the filesystem is ext3 (had to 
| format it on another computer,
| on this one it crashed at a half)

I trust you mean "mke2fs" here, and not simply marking the partition type.

| But when I try to mount, it gives this error:
| 
| # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sata150gb -t ext3
| mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/sda, or too many 
| mounted file systems

Options preceed arguments. Try this:

	mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sata150gb

Cheers,
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